Reforming the UN Foreign Minister Franco Frattini has declared war. "The reform of the United Nations is a matter of international interest and will be promoted as such. I hope to have the whole country, parliament, society, and the world of Italian expatriates on my side. The next appointment will be the UN General Assembly in mid-September, but pressure and confrontational acts will continue to be exerted on the group created by Secretary General Kofi Annan. We are even...
Sir, - My husband and I have just had the pleasure of the company of our German friends. We did our best to return some of the hospitality that they afforded my husband while he lived in their city.It is with great shame that I recount some of their experiences during their visit here. The were amazed at how dirty Dublin was, that so much litter was lying around. They were shocked at the prices in restaurants and in lodgings. B&B rates have almost doubled since their last visit...
BEIRUT, Lebanon - An American woman and two West German friends were reported safe Thursday, the day after a previously unknown group claimed to have kidnapped them. Police said they had not been abducted. Deborah Fahrend, 54, of San Francisco; Mounir Shamseddin Sami, 39, a naturalized West German born in Lebanon, and Sami's 7-year-old son, Danjel, born in Berlin, were in Jounieh, a Christian port north of Beirut.A police spokesman, whose name cannot be revealed because of...